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fortuitous
What does fortuitous mean?
fortuitous (adjective): occurring by happy chance.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use fortuitous in a sentence?
- Profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce fortuitous?
/fɔɹˈtuɪtəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does fortuitous come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin fortuītus (“happening by chance, accidental, random, fortuitous”), from *fortu- (“chance, fortune, luck”) + -ītus (suffix forming adjectives). *Fortu- is thought to be from *fortus.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “fortuitous” mean?
occurring by happy chance
Right! That's what “fortuitous” means.
obvious or easy to notice
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tasting sour like a lemon
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showing prejudice or bias
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